Re: [E1000-devel] Question regarding e1000 link status

2009-01-22 Thread Jonathan Fournier
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Jonathan Fournier jonathan.fourn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Brandeburg, Jesse jesse.brandeb...@intel.com wrote: Jonathan Fournier wrote: so what is the actual connection type on your ethernet, is it a directly connected fiber port?

Re: [E1000-devel] Question regarding e1000 link status

2009-01-21 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Question regarding e1000 link status From e1000_hw.c: e1000_set_media_type() ... default: status = er32(STATUS); if (status E1000_STATUS_TBIMODE) { hw-media_type = e1000_media_type_fiber

Re: [E1000-devel] Question regarding e1000 link status

2009-01-21 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Jonathan Fournier wrote: so what is the actual connection type on your ethernet, is it a directly connected fiber port? Is it a serdes blade? forgive me I've never tested one of the ATCA platforms. I just found out more documentation for that platform, since most ATCA switch are

Re: [E1000-devel] Question regarding e1000 link status

2009-01-21 Thread Jonathan Fournier
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Brandeburg, Jesse jesse.brandeb...@intel.com wrote: Jonathan Fournier wrote: so what is the actual connection type on your ethernet, is it a directly connected fiber port? Is it a serdes blade? forgive me I've never tested one of the ATCA platforms. I just

Re: [E1000-devel] Question regarding e1000 link status

2009-01-20 Thread Jonathan Fournier
Hi, I've found more information to share about my problem. I'm debugging on the ATCA-7101, I initially thought from the datasheet that it had a 82546EB, but by printing the pdev-device it has a value of 0x1079 = E1000_DEV_ID_82546GB_COPPER. Since in the patch I've previously provided, I was

Re: [E1000-devel] Question regarding e1000 link status

2009-01-20 Thread Jonathan Fournier
From e1000_hw.c: e1000_set_media_type() ... default: status = er32(STATUS); if (status E1000_STATUS_TBIMODE) { hw-media_type = e1000_media_type_fiber; /* tbi_compatibility not valid on fiber */ hw-tbi_compatibility_en

[E1000-devel] Question regarding e1000 link status

2009-01-19 Thread Jonathan Fournier
Hi, I'm currently doing some cleanup in *very* old patches I had against 2.6.10. (patch inlined below) At that time a patch was provided to me to fix link status problems on two ATCA boards (Mot ATCA-7101 and Mot ATCA-6101). If I'm correct the 7101 is using a variant of the 82546EB, and the 6101